In vivo confocal microscopy and ultrasound biomicroscopy study of filtering blebs after trabeculectomy: Limbus-based versus fornix-based conjunctival flaps

Journal of Glaucoma

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 383-391

  Morita, Koji ^a   Gao, Yanlin ^a,b   Saito, Yoshiaki ^a   Higashide, Tomomi ^a   Kobayashi, Akira ^a   Ohkubo, Shinji ^a   Sugiyama, Kazuhisa ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b TIANJIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

conjunctival flap; filtering bleb; in vivo confocal microscopy; trabeculectomy; ultrasound biomicroscopy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOMICROSCOPY; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONJUNCTIVA; CONJUNCTIVA EPITHELIUM; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA LIMBUS; EYE SURGERY; FEMALE; FORNIX BASED CONJUNCTIVAL FLAP; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LIMBUS BASED CONJUNCTIVAL FLAP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCULAR BLOOD VESSEL; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCLERA; TRABECULECTOMY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONJUNCTIVA; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LIMBUS CORNEAE; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ACOUSTIC; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; SURGICAL FLAPS; TONOMETRY, OCULAR; TRABECULECTOMY;

EID: 84864611680     PISSN: 10570829     EISSN: 1536481X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/IJG.0b013e3182120a08     Document Type: Article

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